Sustainable Missions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462482955
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Laytonsville, MD, USA
Phone
3018028617
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,735
Expenses
$11,541
Assets
$82,609
Liabilities
$30,452

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAUL FOSTER (President)

People named in this filing

  • JOHN L EMELIO JR (BOARD MEMBER)
  • PAUL FOSTER (President)
  • MATTHEW YETMAN (BOARD MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The religious, educational, and charitable purposes of sustainable missions, inc. Is based on the following core values of christ's teachings, spreading the gospel, self-sufficent beneficiaries, and sustainable projects.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sustainable missions, inc. Is the sole owner of three Virginia nonprofit limited liability companies which each holds a substantially minority interest in three compareable and compatible ugandan nonprofit limted companies. Each of which also owns a parcel of land in kiburara, uganda. These parcels of land have been used for direct and charitable benefit of the indigenous peoples in and around kiburara, uganda. It has enabled collaboration with the alpha and omega vocational secondary school, and the kiburara gospel center and its team of area churches in the ibanda district of western uganda.activites of training in farming poultry processing, goat farming, vocational traing to provide job skills have been put into action. The land will also be used as a launching point for the installation and maintenance of bore-hole wells and rainwater collections systems.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.16; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.